ABSTRACT
Apart from emphasizing the difference between the veteran foundations at Colchester, Lincoln and Gloucester and the different circumstances in which York received promotion, it remains only to describe the individual sites. Two conversions of fortresses to coloniae at Gloucester and Lincoln made use of the respective principiae for their fora. As with all the British coloniae, it is difficult to suggest the area occupied by the territorium. A comparison once made between the coloniae at Gloucester and Lincoln suggested that they were so similar in foundation and early plan that they might both have been built by the same public works contractor. York has no domestic buildings which have been fully excavated. But the fragments, which have been found from time to time, both within the defences and outside them, show the veneer of opulence overlying the comfortable houses, which is to a large extent lacking in the three military coloniae.
